Class notes: 09.18.03
Sir Gawain & Green Knight:
Beowulf; 8th century-10th century; Old English

Old English is inflected: the information is in the end of the words telling the function of them, such as verb, noun and so on. (But because pronounce of the end of words become the same, it is not easy to distinguish the inflection by the end of words as usual.)

Sir Gawain and Green Knight; 14th century; Hendecasyllabic; Middle English

(The demarcation line between Old English and Middle English is 1100A.D; 15th century � 17th century is early modern English; after 17th century is modern English.)
What is gender?
Not biologic sex but the way the man supports to act or the woman supports to act.

Socially way: people and the rule of interaction that lives in a part area and may or may not believe the same thing.

Culturally way: shared ideologies (we are always already called), the way you think about your world.

Ex: Male�anger/violence, sex (Knightly/chivalry/hero behavior�strong, dress well, tall)

Female�fear/sad, romantic (courtly love)

Althusser� interpellation �calling.�
Chivalry and Courtly Love:
~ Oppositional ideological structure used to interrogate one another. What happens in trying to hold those together?

~ What�s the purpose of a life of violence in Chivalry?

~ Is either of these ideas constructs a way to live?

Taiji�there are two parts of this circle, one is white that means sun (male), and the other is black that means moon (female). But the sun still includes the moon (the black dot in the white part), and so does the moon (the white dot in the white part). They complement each other to create the world.
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